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Subject: Re: [boost] [review] **NEXT WEEK** Review of Outcome (starts Fri-19-May)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-14 22:09:15


> Documentation:
> https://ned14.github.io/boost.outcome/index.html

"To whomever it was who proposed the name "Outcome" for the library after a
very extended period of name bikeshedding on boost-dev. I had been minded to
call the library "Boost.Donkey" just to shut everyone up because the name
bike shedding was getting ridiculous. But Outcome is a lot nicer, so thank
you to whomever it was."

That would be Paul Bristow, in

https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/05/222687.php


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